Here’s an interesting question we sometimes get asked: I have a website and it has been running for a for a few years now and has a good ranking on Google. Can I change my domain name? It is possible, but not simple to change your domain. Any domain builds up a...

All authors NEED a website. But what should you put on your author website? And how can you encourage more visitors? This post provides a few marketing tips for authors. Take a look at this site that in many ways is a model site for an author: carolynmahony.com...

STATISTICS ON A WEBSITE All statistics packages include a wealth of information about your site including: Page hits – the number of visitors your site receives Popular pages – the most looked-at pages Came from – the website from which people found your site Keyword...

Junk mail is always a problem if you display an email address on a website. SPAM robots (Spambots) roam the internet looking for email addresses to harvest. These email addresses are added to ‘mailing lists’ and the result is that you get inundated with junk mail....

A home page is a bit like a cover to a book. It displays a snapshot of what your website is about and links to the important sections and pages on the site. It also serves as a sort of main reference point. This is particularly important if a site has a lot of pages....

In the old days, many years ago, web designers used a technology called Flash to create animations on websites. Such animations were created by specialist Adobe Flash designers and embedded on a web page. Flash could create some lovely animated effects. Then Apple...

These days, users access the web using lots of different kind of devices with different screen sizes, resolutions, pixel density, etc. These include tablets, smart phones, TVs, desktop computers and laptops. Responsive web design allows you to have a single website...

Here’s a question we sometime get asked… One question: your templates seem to take quite a time to load compared to those offered by other web designers. Is that true? It’s a fact that some sites load faster than others. For example, simple HTML sites tend to load...

Questions we often get asked are ‘why does my website look different when I look at it on another computer?’ or ‘why does my website look different when I look at it on Safari (or any other browser)’? A common misconception about designing a web page is that it is...

No host is perfect, despite any claims they may make in their marketing materials. It is a fact of life that in any technology-based company, something can go wrong with the hosting server and a website can go down. There are any number of reasons why there is hosting...